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Bozarslan, Hamit; Gunes, Cengiz; Yadirgi, Veli

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“…Consequently, they have fought for racial, political and sociocultural existence and freedom (Gunes, 2012). Through diverse, and sometimes, diverging strategies, Kurds have resisted against forced assimilation by colonial forces in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria as well as against nonrecognition in diaspora for centuries (Bozarslan et al., 2021). From the Ottoman Empire (OE) until the 1960s, the first waves of Kurdish resistance have been religious in nature, including the Dersim Rebellion and the Sheikh Said Rebellion (Soleimani, 2021; Yüksel, 2021).…”

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“…Counternarratives may not be as influential as testimonials in participatory action research (e.g., Nguyen et al., 2024), but they are powerful tools to dismantle hegemonic metanarratives (see also Perez et al., 2024). First, Kurds managed to protect their dissident voice through building a collective memory of being oppressed by and resisting against the hegemonic powers in Mesopotamia over centuries (Bozarslan et al., 2021). Thus, we believe that any analysis of power and resistance among Kurds should be grounded on Kurdish voices that expose the ways in which racism becomes an ordinary pattern in daily lives operating through both intergroup and ingroup relations.…”

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“…Resisting against colonial oppression took diverse roads, leading to various political positions and disputes among Kurds across four parts of Kurdistan as well as within each subregion (Bozarslan et al., 2021). Within the imposed nation‐state borders of Turkey, KLM has been a strong anticolonial and leftist movement.…”

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“…For a comprehensive review of these historical events from a Kurdish perspective, we refer toBozarslan, Gunes, and Yadirgi (2021).…”

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Resistance from below among racialized peoples: Exploring Kurdish understandings of power

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2024

Journal of Social Issues

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Understanding power and resistance dynamics from below requires focusing on the micropolitics of oppressed group existence. This involves exploring the ways members of the oppressed and resisting groups make sense of power in terms of identity, community, culture, and politics. As Kurdish researchers living in Turkey and Bakurê Kurdistan, we conducted in‐depth interviews with 16 Kurds in Van and Istanbul. We explored contemporary Kurdish epistemologies and praxis of racial critical consciousness toward contents and sources of Kurdish power. In this pursuit, we contextualized and synergized tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and anticolonial approaches. Our analysis shows that Kurdish understandings of power involve both representations and boundaries. Both themes are influenced by the multifaceted Kurdishness as an exteriority, a reclaimed racialized identity, an epistemology of existence, and a praxis of resisting in response to Turkish coloniality. Furthermore, the sub‐themes of power highlighted senses of agency, capacity, resources, community bonds, and social organization. We suggest that Kurdish power is constituted beyond a dualistic understanding of power, capable of creating subaltern strategies. We contribute to the transnational extensions of CRT and provide a contextualized account of antiracist and anticolonial resistance.

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